Watch Theo Jemison’s video of artist Kiel Johnson’s installation “Everyone’s an Architect” at TEDActive 2012. See how the project grows throughout the week, with dozens of collaborators stopping by or spending long hours to help build Johnson’s charming cardboard city — lit up with LEDs powered by human foot traffic and a hand-cranked generator. Music by Daedelusmusic.com.
Cool timelapse: Building Paper City 2.0 at TEDActive
Related stories:
Global Issues
In praise of urban farmers: A Q&A with City 2.0 essayist Roman Gaus
Posted By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
Imagine a city skyline — a jagged line of peaks, drops and plateaus — all filled with rooftop farms. This is the dream of Roman Gaus, CEO of UrbanFarmers, which aims to turn city roof space into a place to grow fresh food and even raise fish. Gaus has contributed an essay to the new […]
News
Announcing: The new City 2.0 website launches today. Share your stories.
Posted By Jamia Wilson
In the next 30 years, two-thirds of our planet’s population will live in cities. Have you ever tried to envision the cities of the future? Cities are enlivened by people, and people enable change. So today, we are launching our redesigned website TheCity2.org, a gathering place for all urban denizens to share stories, videos, ideas […]





























Pingback: Paper City: Kiel Johnson Crafts Tiny Cityscapes From Scraps Of Cardboard … - Newspaper Layout
Pingback: Cardboard Metropolis by Kiel Johnson
Pingback: Arquitectura para todos (vale a pena…) « À Sombra do Mosteiro